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>The Pirates of Silicon Valley, an exhaustively researched TV drama due
>to air next month, paints Gates as ... Machiavellian and scheming ...
>But for a single moment of "inspiration", he might have sunk into the
>comfortable obscurity enjoyed by his father, a wealthy merchant banker
Oh, so, the "richest man in the world" is the son of a rich man? (Do let's
hear MORE about the elder Gates, merchant banker!) So much for the "equal
opportunity" --you know, "anyone can become president"-- which is the
favorite claim of Capitalists ...
>It alleges that soon after forming Microsoft as a Harvard drop-out in
>1975, Gates and his partner Paul Allen opportunistically 'built upon' the
>software of a rival company to produce the DOS computer operating
>system. This was the foundation of Gates's estimated $80 billion fortune
The word is "piracy," theft with coercion -- hence the title, "Pirates" of
Silicon Valley.
>The [Microsoft antitrust] trial deepened the anti-Microsoft sentiment
>by revealing the predatory and arrogant nature of Gates' business practice.
"Predatory" and "arrogant," like the "robber barons" --old man Rockefeller,
JP Morgan, even Edison (stealing from Tesla)-- who were the "Founding
Fathers" of the American brand of Capitalism -- who in many people's minds
still wear the phony haloes crafted for them by a bought-and-sold press,
consciously functioning as their propagandists.
>Should, as most experts predict, the technology-hyped stock market crash,
>... these modern-day moguls could experience a public backlash even
>more ferocious than the one the transformed the financiers of Wall Street
>in the '80s from masters of the universe to blood-sucking corporate leeches.
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